Space

A new study asserts that the Milky Way is home to one hundred million planets that could support alien life. And not just simple microbial life, but complex alien life. A scientific team comprised of Louis Irwin from the University ...

Professor Valery P. Burdakov was a Ph.D. of Engineering Sciences, a distinguished Russian scientist, and co-author of an immensely popular book Rockets of the Future.

According to Yahoo News UK, many in China believe a UFO is to blame for their recent moon rover's demise, even scientists and engineers.

Scientists searching for life as we know it on alien worlds typically focus on planets around stars like our own G-type sun. And some scientists believe that life can also develop on planets orbiting smaller, cooler stars. But a recent ...

There have been multiple projects in the past couple years that have crowdsourced messages to extraterrestrials. But a new initiative hopes to send your photo or video to Mars in a time capsule to be discovered by any extraterrestrials who ...

On Thursday, April 17, NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, an exoplanet with the greatest likelihood of containing life. A team of researchers published findings related to the discovery of Kepler-186f in the journal Science. The team identified the planet ...

On April 9, NASA announced that a flying saucer will be seen in Hawaii during the summer of 2014. But this flying saucer belongs to NASA. NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project is designing and testing new technology to land ...

The SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) selected a new organization head. A press release issued by the SETI Institute on Wednesday, April 9 announced that Dr. David Black has been named the organization’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. ...

Did NASA photograph light pouring through an opening to a Martian underground base?

New evidence confirms what many scientists already suspected–a liquid water ocean exists beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. In 2005, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft discovered water-rich plumes erupting from Enceladus’s south pole, leading researchers to believe the moon contained ...

On Tuesday, March 4, NASA released an overview of its 2015 budget request, which includes funding for the formulation for a mission to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Astrobiologists are excited about the potential habitability of Europa. Planetary scientist and astrobiologist Kevin ...

A university professor is excited about the prospects of detecting alien civilizations with a new space telescope. The European Space Agency’s Plato (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) space telescope is scheduled to launch in 2024. And, as the Coventry ...

A fatwa is a ruling issued by Islamic scholars, and a recent one says participating in one-way trips to Mars is as bad as committing suicide.

Astrobiologist Richard Hoover spent more than forty six years working at NASA. In that time, he established the Astrobiology Research Group at the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, and became internationally known for his research on microfossils in meteorites. Hoover has ...

Computer simulations suggest that there are likely twenty one planets in the Alpha Centauri B solar system, eleven of which fall into the habitable zone where the temperature on those planets should be just right for liquid water to exist. ...

Scientists have detected water on Ceres, a dwarf planet residing in our solar system’s asteroid belt. The Herschel Telescope detected water vapor spouting from Ceres. According to Michael Küppers of the European Space Agency, “This is the first clear-cut detection ...

Scientists have determined that stardust contains water, a discovery that suggests the universe is rife with life. Although scientists have previously suggested that dust grains floating through our solar system contain water, it has actually been detected for the first ...

According to a new study, researchers believe that Earth-sized planets can support life at least ten times farther away from their host stars than previously thought. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen and the University of St Andrews recently published ...

A new study suggests that life could have been transferred from the inner solar system to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Panspermia, the theory that life can spread through space, has been studied by many scientists. Earlier this year, ...

Scientists educated members of the U.S. House of Representatives about the search for extraterrestrial life.